ActiveVideo was awarded damages totaling $115 million in the jury trial of the company's patent infringement suit against Verizon Communications. The decision upholds ActiveVideo's rights as the inventor of industry-leading technology in the delivery of advanced television applications such as video-on-demand and interactive TV.

Following three weeks of proceedings, a jury in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia found that Verizon had infringed on all asserted claims of the intellectual property owned by ActiveVideo during the deployment of Verizon's FiOS television service.

ActiveVideo filed suit against Verizon in May, 2010, alleging that the Verizon FiOS system infringed on four patents for technology created, owned and used by ActiveVideo. The patents, which are fundamental to interactive television services such as video-on-demand, include:

• United States Patent No. 6,034,678, titled "Cable Television System With Remote Interactive Processor;"
• United States Patent No. 5,550,578, titled "Interactive And Conventional Television Information System;"
• United States Patent No. 6,100,883, titled "Home Interface Controller for Providing Interactive Cable Television;" and
• United States Patent No. 6,205,582, titled "Interactive Cable Television System with Frame Server."

Having pioneered cloud-based delivery of VOD and interactive television, ActiveVideo has a substantial and fundamental portfolio of patents dating back to the early 1990s. The ActiveVideo CloudTV platform is currently deployed with major cable system operators, including Cablevision. It offers solutions for video-on-demand navigation, interactive games, and many other interactive services.